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    inside Jack’s camp. The boulder that Roger rolls down the hill brutalizes piggy and also crushes the conch shell‚ signifying the loss civilization among almost all boys on the island. It seems appropriate that Piggy and the conch shell were killed and broken together. They both represented the same thing‚ civility‚ normality and order. The Lord of the Flies The lord of the flies is an integral part to the story of lord of the flies. It is the severed pig’s head that Jack impales on a stake as an

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    Well now none of us may ever get that chance again. Ever since the crash‚ I knew when I first saw him he would be trouble. He believes because he and his group hunt‚ they are better than all of us. Look down at broken glasses And my Specs. I can’t believe it. Of everything he could have broken

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    ANCIENT HISTORY ASSESMENT: SPARTA By Jorge T What are the main features of Spartan government in the period to 500BC?: HOW SPARTAN CONSTITUTION/GOVERNMENT CAME TO BE: Throughout the Greek world at this time‚ a great period of expansion and colonization took place‚ chiefly due to land hunger. Sparta attacked neighboring Messenia and engaged in a series of wars‚ reducing the population to serfdom. The success in these wars enabled Sparta to double the agricultural resources. At some point

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    Jessica Duncan Mrs.Burrows Honors English 10 9/15/14 The Clash of Two Governments: A Democracy vs. A Dictatorship “What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages?" –Piggy (91) In today’s world democracy and dictatorships still square off against one another‚ for example‚ the U.S. versus North Korea‚ Israel vs. Palestine‚ and Russia vs. Ukraine‚ just to name a few. In Lord of the Flies‚ William Golding represents both of these types of governments and leadership styles in the form of two characters:

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    Encounters. University of California Press‚ 1993. Cortes‚ Hernan. Anthony Pagden ed. Letters from Mexico. New Haven: Yale University Press‚ 1986 Diaz‚ Bernal. The Conquest of New Spain. London: Penguin Books‚ 1963. Leon-Portilla‚ Miguel ed.‚ The Broken Spears. Boston: Beacon Press‚ 1992. Prescott‚ W. H. History of the Conquest of Mexico and History of the Conquest of Peru. New York: Random House‚ 1936.

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    The past few years talents shows has invaded your television screen. You been filled up whit; broken dreams‚ cracked ambitions‚ family tragedies‚ tone-deaf girl and sometimes even real talent. You may love- or hate it‚ but one thing is for sure‚ you can’t certainly ignore it. It’s appearing everywhere; in the radio‚ newspaper and magazines. Even when you are shopping in the supermarket‚ you can’t avoid them. But what was it that made Talent shows so incredible large? You‚ or more exact the audience

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    the reason for this being‚ from the age of 7 all boys were required to go to military training at the Agoge and train there until the age of 20‚ they also had unique and extremely effective formations‚ ways of protection‚ and weapons (shields‚ long spears‚ etc.) that would help them in any scenario one could think of. In Sparta‚ when a boy is born soldiers would to the house

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    How does Noyce position the reader to sympathise with the three protagonists? Throughout Rabbit-Proof Fence‚ Noyce encourages the viewer to understand and imaginatively experience the story through the feelings of the children. The narrative structure‚ visual symbolism‚ camera angles‚ music‚ characterisation and use and absence of language are techniques that Noyce uses to position the reader to sympathise with the three protagonists. In the scene in which the children arrive at the Moore River

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    rightfully mine. Remember‚ it is Harold who swore allegiance to me after I freed him from Count Guy of Ponthieu. I gave him arms and armor as he swore the sacred oath upon saintly relics. That oath‚ a pledge to support my claim to the English throne was broken (New World Encyclopedia‚ 2009). As I await my messenger to relay information about the location of the English‚ our army prepares for the impending battle. Calvary horses neigh nervously as a chill fills the ocean air. Archers ready their bows

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    limbs in their fields. The first recorded Werewolf sighting took place around the countryside of German town Colongne and Bedburg in 1591.Few people cornered a large wolf and set their dogs upon it. They started to pierce it with sharp sticks and spears. Surprisingly the ferocious wolf did not run away or tried to protect itself‚ rather it stood up and turned out to be a middle-aged man he was Peter Stubbe from the same village. Stubbe was put on a torture wheel where he confessed sixteen murders

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